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Georgia Gwinnett College’s Lackey Earns 2024-25 CAC Dr. LeRoy Walker Champion of Character Award
Posted: Jul 01, 2025

Georgia Gwinnett College’s Lackey Earns 2024-25 CAC Dr. LeRoy Walker Champion of Character Award

Georgia Gwinnett College softball outfielder Enna Lackey has received the Continental Athletic Conference's Dr. LeRoy Walker Champion of Character award for the 2024-25 athletic season.

The award honors outstanding student-athletes for their academic and athletic accomplishments, leadership skills, and dedication to living the core values of NAIA's Champions of Character. Eligible student-athletes must have at least junior academic status and a 3.00 or higher cumulative grade-point average, athletic achievements, and campus and community leadership.

Lackey completed her junior season helping to roam the outfield for the Grizzlies, having a .429 batting average in 30 games during the 2025 season. She helped the team post a 48-10 record and a semifinal-round finish in the NAIA World Series after winning the Lawrenceville Opening Round and CAC Championship tournaments.

The Rincon, Georgia, native has a three-year .346 batting average, 54 runs and 47 stolen bases across 71 career games. She was the CAC Freshman of the Year in 2023 and was named the National Fastpitch Coaches Association's Region 1 Freshman of the Year that season. Lackey has helped lead GGC to three NAIA World Series appearances and three conference championships.

Off the diamond, Lackey is a junior cadet in GGC's Reserved Officers' Training Corp program and helped organize the softball team's 2025 Military Appreciation Day, helping other ROTC cadets in participating in pregame festivities.

"I am a student-athlete for the Georgia Gwinnett Softball Team and a University of Georgia Army ROTC cadet. Both programs encourage responsibility, respect, integrity, and leadership. This has helped me on the softball field and in the field for ROTC. Learning the importance of responsibility has helped me learn implied tasks, accountability, behavioral actions, and positive mentality," stated Lackey in an essay that was part of the Dr. LeRoy Walker Champion of Character application.

She added, "As a softball player, I use responsibility in many ways, such as keeping up with equipment, learning teammates' class schedules to ensure tardiness and accountability, knowing the practice plan and game-day schedule in order to keep up with priorities of work, and learning the ways of teaching and communicating when having new teammates."

Lackey also has led elements of GGC's preseason and in-season conditioning and balanced the demands of being a student-athlete along with a ROTC cadet.

"Enna arrived at GGC determined to be a great student-athlete. She has grown in strength mentally and physically. Enna is a hard-working student and always achieves well on her ROTC scores too," said Head Coach Kat Ihlenburg. "In the fall of 2024 Enna led conditioning in combined efforts with the ROTC and GGC softball team. She planned her team's work to be interwoven with the cadet work for the ROTC program. Her strengths in leadership and respect have made her an easy person to trust and follow because of her hard work."

Dr. Walker was a former NAIA president and president emeritus of the U.S. Olympic Committee.